The Jewel In Aaron’s Turban

Daily Spirit & Word: 663: Holy Things.

The Jewel in Aaron’s Turban.

Good morning my friends, it’s cold and dark outside. Thanks be to the LORD, I’ve been convicted by His Holy Spirit again. As I was reading in daily devotional, I heard His voice saying, “That’s you Donald”. Now ordinarly I’d think “that’s Satan’s voice trying to make me feel guilty, when I’m not”, but today it was the voice of the LORD. You see even in the holiest of things that we do for the LORD there is SIN lurking at the door.

Exodus 28:38 (NLT) “Aaron must wear it on his forehead so he may take on himself any guilt of the people of Israel when they consecrate their sacred offerings. He must always wear it on his forehead so the LORD will accept the people.”

When I first studied Exodus, I must have missed this; I concentrated then upon the Dress of Aaron the High Priest, but today the LORD showed me something more. It’s talking about the jewel in Aaron’s turban and the fact that even when the People of Israel were bringing offerings to the LORD, there was some sin in the offering. It was a reminder that even when the people are going about doing their most holy and devoted acts, there is a tinge of sinfulness in it; and the jewel in the turban is to take away the sins from the people, that Aaron (the High Priest) might bear their sin, even in their offerings and sacrifices so that they would become acceptable to God.

How can that possibly be?

How is it possible to be doing HOLY activity with sinful motives?

Well think of a Garden that needs to be tended:

A gardener may look at his garden and say, “Oh I need to go and do some weeding”… He goes out and spends ages removing the weeds. That’s good right? Well it could be, but let’s look at some of the reasons why a gardener may undertake the task of weeding his garden.

So the garden may be covered in weeds because of the gardener’s indolence, laziness, lack of concern, not caring about the growth of weeds in the garden. This reminded me of Jesus teaching about the yeast of the Pharisees and how it can spread throughout the whole batch of dough or the church or fellowship. Jesus wants his people to be pure, so He instructs us to be aware of the yeast of the Pharisees, unbelief.

There are HOLY things we should be doing, but because of our lazy attitude or our indolence, it doesn’t get done.

PRIDE & VANITY:The gardener may work on his garden for reasons of pride or vanity.

He works hard removing every single weed he can find, so that when he looks back over his garden he pats himself on the back and says, “What a good job I’ve done, that will impress people”. That’s pride in operation. He’s thinking of the neighbours looking over the fence and saying, “That’s a fantastic garden”; that’s pride too, but it’s also vanity; looking good in the eyes of others.

Why are we going about our devotions to the LORD? Is it to impress other people, to feel good about ourselves, to impress the LORD or because we’ve been too lazy and we’ve let the garden of our faith get covered in weeds?

Thankfully, like Aaron’s jewel in the turban, which was in place because of the iniquity of the offerings, the sins of the people who were bringing holy sacrifices to the LORD, we too have a High Priest: Jesus Christ. When we’re doing our devotions; prayer, praise, worship, fellowship, Bible study, etc; the Lord God Almighty doesn’t see us or the sin in the offering: He sees only your High Priest standing in front of your offerings. Jesus Christ is your great high priest my friends; that’s GRACE.

So even if it is; indolence, pride or vanity, we’re covered by the righteousness of Jesus Christ. However, let’s check our motives; why are we tending our garden of praise?

If it’s to impress other’s that’s vanity.

If it’s to impress the LORD, that vanity too.

If it’s to impress ourselves, that’s Pride.

If it’s to cover our laziness, that’s indolence.

Oh LORD, SAVE me from my pride, vanity and indolence today. Amen.

Lord, I ask that you’ll help me, even when I’m doing the right things, to be doing them from pure motives. Amen.

Help me O LORD, even in my most HOLY activity. Amen.

Thank you Lord Jesus, that You are the Jewel in the Crown of righteousness.

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